Carrier route record
OHCLT→DAB
PSA Airlines · Charlotte to Daytona Beach
- Flights
- 1,135
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 81%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on CLT to DAB carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,135 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on CLT to DAB from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,095 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.35%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.7%
Every carrier on CLT to DAB, 1,399 flights
These figures cover 1,135 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on CLT to DAB
PSA flew 1,135 of the 1,399 flights on CLT to DAB, most of the route. Its 78.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.8% to PSA at 78.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 264 | 79.8% | 61 min | 0.76% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 1,135 | 78.4% | 65 min | 3.35% | B− |
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Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am359 flights86.7%
- 11am–2pm320 flights80.3%
- 2pm–5pm138 flights75.0%
- 5pm–8pm136 flights69.0%
- 8pm–5am182 flights68.4%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 86.7% of the time, against 68.4% for the overnight window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 359 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on CLT to DAB through the year
August is the worst month at 62.0% on time, 25 points below October, the best at 87.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. September was the busiest month here, with 127 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.2%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on CLT to DAB runs when it is late
PSA on CLT to DAB often beats the schedule: 382 of 1,095 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 236 late arrivals split 75 under half an hour, 84 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 77 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early382 flights34.9%
- Within 15 min477 flights43.6%
- 15–29 min late75 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late84 flights7.7%
- 1–2 hours late43 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late34 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,095 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
56 of 260 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 32 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on CLT to DAB
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 June 2026, 10 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2026 | 10 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 5 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 April 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 15,405 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 86.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.35%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 416 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 83.8% on time across 1,135 flights, 5 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,135 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking PSA on CLT to DAB
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.35% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,095 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.